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| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 7816-7824 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Chemical Society |
| Volume | 120 |
| Issue number | 31 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 24 Jul 1998 |
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- intermetallic lithium-magnesium hexamethyldisilazide
- hexane/toluene solution
- crystal structure
- N atoms
- peroxide-oxide variant
- transition metal cluster compounds
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Intermetallic lithium-magnesium hexamethyldisilazide: Synthesis and structure, discovery of an oxygen-centered variant, and a reaction with benzonitrile that produces a novel amidinate cage compound with a trigonal bipyramidal Li4MgO core. / Kennedy, A.R.; Mulvey, R.E.; Rowlings, R.B.
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 120, No. 31, 24.07.1998, p. 7816-7824.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Intermetallic lithium-magnesium hexamethyldisilazide: Synthesis and structure, discovery of an oxygen-centered variant, and a reaction with benzonitrile that produces a novel amidinate cage compound with a trigonal bipyramidal Li4MgO core
AU - Kennedy, A.R.
AU - Mulvey, R.E.
AU - Rowlings, R.B.
PY - 1998/7/24
Y1 - 1998/7/24
N2 - Intermetallic lithium-magnesium hexamethyldisilazide [{(Me3Si)2N}3LiMg], 1, has been synthesized from a nonstoichiometric 2:1 ratio of LHMDS and Mg(HMDS)2 in hexane/toluene solution. Its crystal structure reveals a simple dinuclear arrangement based on a near-planar NMgNLi ring: the Mg center occupies a distorted trigonal planar environment of three N atoms, while the Li center occupies a distorted tetrahedral N2C2 environment due to two additional C-Li interactions with the -N(SiMe3)2 substituents. This structure appears to be retained in arene solution on the basis of the evidence of 1H NMR spectral data. In the presence of trace amounts of oxygen, the surprising peroxide-oxide variant [{(Me3Si)2N}4 Li2Mg2(O2)x(O)y] preferentially crystallizes from solution. X-ray crystallography has established that its structure contains peroxide predominantly [x = 0.715(7); y = 0.285(7)], the presence of which induces an aggregation state increase relative to 1: the four indistinguishable metal centers, held in a square-planar arrangement, side-on-coordinate to the peroxide molecule and bind to two N atoms. The oxygen-scavenging ability of this system has been exploited further in a reaction with benzonitrile. This has yielded a third intermetallic lithium-magnesium crystalline compound, having the composition [{PhC(NSiMe3)2}4Li4Mg(O)]. X-ray crystallography has revealed its remarkable cage structure built around an unprecedented distorted trigonal bipyramidal Li4MgO core, at the center of which lies a 5-O atom. Interestingly, all the metal centers lie out of the benzamidinate NCN ligand planes to indicate a significant degree of -bonding. One NCN ligand also adopts an unusual face-capping mode to a Li3 triangle, the like of which has previously only been observed in transition metal cluster compounds.
AB - Intermetallic lithium-magnesium hexamethyldisilazide [{(Me3Si)2N}3LiMg], 1, has been synthesized from a nonstoichiometric 2:1 ratio of LHMDS and Mg(HMDS)2 in hexane/toluene solution. Its crystal structure reveals a simple dinuclear arrangement based on a near-planar NMgNLi ring: the Mg center occupies a distorted trigonal planar environment of three N atoms, while the Li center occupies a distorted tetrahedral N2C2 environment due to two additional C-Li interactions with the -N(SiMe3)2 substituents. This structure appears to be retained in arene solution on the basis of the evidence of 1H NMR spectral data. In the presence of trace amounts of oxygen, the surprising peroxide-oxide variant [{(Me3Si)2N}4 Li2Mg2(O2)x(O)y] preferentially crystallizes from solution. X-ray crystallography has established that its structure contains peroxide predominantly [x = 0.715(7); y = 0.285(7)], the presence of which induces an aggregation state increase relative to 1: the four indistinguishable metal centers, held in a square-planar arrangement, side-on-coordinate to the peroxide molecule and bind to two N atoms. The oxygen-scavenging ability of this system has been exploited further in a reaction with benzonitrile. This has yielded a third intermetallic lithium-magnesium crystalline compound, having the composition [{PhC(NSiMe3)2}4Li4Mg(O)]. X-ray crystallography has revealed its remarkable cage structure built around an unprecedented distorted trigonal bipyramidal Li4MgO core, at the center of which lies a 5-O atom. Interestingly, all the metal centers lie out of the benzamidinate NCN ligand planes to indicate a significant degree of -bonding. One NCN ligand also adopts an unusual face-capping mode to a Li3 triangle, the like of which has previously only been observed in transition metal cluster compounds.
KW - intermetallic lithium-magnesium hexamethyldisilazide
KW - hexane/toluene solution
KW - crystal structure
KW - N atoms
KW - peroxide-oxide variant
KW - transition metal cluster compounds
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja980561e
U2 - 10.1021/ja980561e
DO - 10.1021/ja980561e
M3 - Article
VL - 120
SP - 7816
EP - 7824
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
SN - 0002-7863
IS - 31
ER -